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  1. 28 October 2021 - Engineering & Technology

    Surveillance: What is it good for?

    Online monitoring raises serious issues but applying ethics and rights can help make it fair and accountable, say University of Melbourne experts.

  2. 26 July 2021 - Engineering & Technology

    TikTok captures your face

    University of Melbourne experts say that TikTok's decision to capture unique digital copies of your face and voice is a cybersecurity threat to your identity.

  3. 9 July 2021 - Humanities

    Poetry as a surveillance survival guide

    Amid pervasive surveillance and social media, it is poetry that can help us navigate our technologically-led society, says a University of Melbourne expert

  4. 4 February 2021 - Health & Wellbeing

    Privacy and health: The lessons of COVID-19

    Australia's COVIDSafe app had wide support but too many were wary. A University of Melbourne-led team have now delved into Australians' attitudes to privacy

  5. 8 June 2020 - Engineering & Technology

    When tools for a health emergency become tools of oppression

    Surveillance technology and powers deployed to combat COVID-19 can and are being used to threaten civil freedoms, University of Melbourne experts warn.

  6. 5 April 2020 - Legal Affairs

    The cost to freedom in the war against COVID-19

    Mass digital surveillance is being used around the world to control COVID-19. University of Melbourne experts warn of the risks to citizens' privacy and freedom

  7. 17 February 2020 - Engineering & Technology

    AI: It’s time for the law to respond

    The law may always be behind technology, but a University of Melbourne expert argues that the sweeping influence of artificial intelligence needs more response.

  8. Podcast3 February 2016 - Up Close

    The boss’ gaze: Workplace surveillance and what it means

    Management expert Graham Sewell from the University of Melbourne on the evolution of workplace surveillance, its usefulness and its unsettling effects.

  9. 22 October 2015 - Music, Arts & Screen

    Two plus two equals 1984: Orwell’s nightmare or smug satire

    Orwell's politics ring true today, but does Headlong Theatre's production of 1984 undermine the author's vision?